“Oh absolutely. Definitely. I’d say soon. I’m not so sure if it’s this year but soon,” McMahon said.

Savage, whose real name is Randy Poffo, was one of the most recognizable and charismatic professional wrestlers throughout the 1980s and ’90s. He had a long list of accomplishments, including being the WWF Intercontinental Champion, a two-time WWF Champion and a four-time WCW World Heavyweight Champion.

Savage, who died in 2011, crossed over into mainstream celebrity status endorsing Slim Jim, and later appearing in a variety of acting roles from Bonesaw McGraw in “Spider-Man” and Space Ghost’s dad Leonard Ghostal in “Space Ghost Coast to Coast.”

Here’s one of the promos he did during his days with the then-WWF:

He will be inducted into the Hall of Fame on March 28 at the SAP Center in San Jose, Calif., on the eve of WrestleMania 31, the WWE’s biggest event of the year.

NASA’s Orion spacecraft is set to blast off Thursday at 7:05 a.m. from Kennedy Space Center. It’s an uncrewed mission, but that doesn’t mean the spacecraft is going up alone on Experimental Flight Test 1.

Quite the contrary, actually.

On board Orion are myriad items such as poetry, music, educational items, experiments and memorabilia from former space missions.

Seriously, someone call Ms. Frizzle and tell her there’s a new Magic School Bus in town. Read more…

In this May 21, 2010 file photo, Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Linda McMahon, right, and husband Vince McMahon, left, wait for delegate totals to be tallied during the Connecticut Republican Convention in Hartford, Conn. (Jessica Hill, AP file)

In a revealing interview with Stone Cold Steve Austin, WWE chairman and CEO Vince McMahon talked about the fall out with CM Punk, why Brock Lesnar isn’t appearing on television more, and if Macho Man Randy Savage will ever get enshrined into the WWE Hall of Fame on Monday on the WWE Network.

The interview comes days after the Colt Cabana podcast interview with CM Punk in which the former pro wrestler talked about a variety of factors leading to his departure, from his frustration with the company’s direction to having his ideas taken and repackaged for other wrestlers to not being able to have time to recovery from injuries.

Here’s a recap of their talk:

• On CM Punk
McMahon: “I would like to apologize. Sometimes in a big corporation, the legal people don’t necessarily know what talent relations are doing and conversely. Punk got his severance papers on the day he got married. That was coincidence. …

“There have been a number of individuals in the past who have been disgruntled, said a lot of things about the organization, and I’m not going to wash the dirty laundry in public, I don’t think there’s any reason for that. I think there are a lot of things he may say that he will regret one day in terms of looking back at it, but nonetheless I hope that one day we’ll be able to get back together again.

“There’s always two sides to every story.”

• On this generation’s crop of wrestlers
M: “This is a different group of guys and gals. They’re millenials. They’re not quite as ambitious, quite frankly, and they’re not trepidatious at all. I don’t think they necessarily want to reach for that brass ring. The last person to reach for that brass ring in all likelihood was John Cena.”

The fans may still chant “CM Punk” at WWE events, but don’t expect to see the former World Wrestling Entertainment champion back in the ring any time soon. If ever.

The former pro wrestler, whose real name is Phil Brooks, ripped into his old employer when he broke his silence about his decision to leave on the latest Colt Cabana’s “Art of Wrestling” podcast released Thursday.

“I’m the … happiest I’ve been in … at least three years, legitimately,” Brooks said on the podcast. “I find these other things that have made me happy and this thing I thought I loved, it just made me so miserable.”

The full interview (which can be found below) runs about two hours, but is totally worth listening to for fans of pro wrestling.

Brooks, 36, talked about a variety of factors leading to his departure, from his frustration with the company’s direction to having his ideas taken and repackaged for other wrestlers to not being able to have time to recovery from injuries.

Scientists have discovered an invisible shield roughly 7,200 miles above Earth that blocks so-called “killer electrons,” which can fry satellites and degrade space systems during intense solar storms. (Illustration by Andy Kale, University of Alberta.)

It sounds a plot ripped directly from science fiction … but it’s real: Earth has a force field-like natural shield that protects the planet — and us all — from killer space electrons.

Yes, KILLER SPACE ELECTRONS. Just in case you didn’t have enough to worry about at night. These particles thrash about in a cosmic mosh pit around at near-light speed, battering satellites, damaging space systems, threatening astronaut safety and even messing up your GPS from time to time.

Fandango is currently running a sweepstakes where the grand-prize winner will blast off to space aboard the XCOR Lynx Mark II spacecraft from the company’s spaceport in Mojave, Ca., and will reach the Kármán line, the official boundary between the Earth’s atmosphere and outer space at 100 km/62 mi.

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